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/ 1 ) , ~~ -, %. ,-, i,..k - A , :.'... 41,1 ', f ~ , • , ,ii " . 915.0.0 ' CONTRACTS FOR STRAW. Commissariat Department, Treasury Chambers, Sept. 21, 1826. SUCH Persons 'as are desirous of Contracting with the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to furnish for Twelve Months, from the Ist of November next, such Quantities of STRAW for FILLING PAILLASSES, as way from time to time he required at Barfacks and Ordnance Stations in the un der-mentioned Counties and Islands, may receive Particulars of the Contracts on applying at this Office, between the hours of Ten and Four; and to the respective Barrack Masters in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney, and deliver their Tenders at thiteOffice, (marking thereon " Tender for Straw,") until Twelve o'Clock on Tuesday the 10th of October. Proposals are to be made separately for each County es South Britain, for the whole of the Barracks in North Britain, and also for the whole of those in the three Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney, but no Proposal will be noticed unless made on, or annexed to, a printed Particular, and the prices inserted in words at length ; nor unless a Letter be subjoined to such Proposal from a person of known property, engaging to become lxiond with the Party tendering for the due performance of the Contract. Berko Breeknock Chester Cornwall Cumberland Devon Dorset Durham Essex Hants COUNTIES. Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Lancaster Mithileseit Norfolk Northumberland Northampton Nottingham Pembroke Su folk Surrey Somerset Sussex Warwick York North Britain Islands of Guernsey Jersey Alderney THE OCTA TRAVEI VO Edition of MI IS was published on it John Murray, Albe DEM-lAM'S fATURDAY. Printed le-street. WANTS'a PLACE, as WET-NURSE, a re speetable WOMAN, who can have an amiable and good character from Ladies she has lived with. The child is a month old.—Apply (if by letter, post paid,) to A. C., No. SO, Bromill'•-• road, Clapham Common. PUBLIC NOTICE. THE LICENSESGRANTED by 4th Geo. IV. cap. 60. To,the Lottery Office-keepers, to sell and divide into Shares State Lottery Tickets, WILL CEASE AND DETERMINE On WIDPILIIDAY; the 18th of Tins MONTH, When ell the Six Prizes of £30,000, and every other Prize, amounting to Thais HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINE THOUSAND POUNDS, Must be decided, and ALL, LOTTERIES END IN THIS KINGDOM. Government having already given extra time for the sale of Tickets will not grant an hour beyond the 18th instant. TCLARK'S GENERAL OUTFITTING • WAREHOUSE, for the EAST and WEST INDIES and SOUTH AMERICA, EXETER 'CHANGE, STRAND. Oflicers, Cadets, and Writers going to India, and Gentlemen proceeding to South America, or any other part of the Globe, will find in this Establishment the whole of their Military Ap pointments, Swords, Chaco', Sashes, Belts, Pistols, fte. toge ther with a large and well-manufactured stock of Sea Cots, Couchei, and Bedding ; Cabin Wash -hand Tables, Chairs, and Lamps ; Sea Chests, Mule and Bullock Trunks, and every other descrip tion of Travelling Equipage. rs. . AN ASSORTMENT OF CANTEENS, ready fitted with the necessary requisites for India, and other tropical climates ; like win a great variety of Silver and Plated Articles, Knives and Forks, suitable for families going abroad ; Military and Hindus tannee Books, Maps, &e. A FASHIONABLE STOCK of Carriage, Curricle, Tandem, Blopton, Stanhope otiAl Chaise HARNESS, with every tlescrip tita of Saddlery, &c. &c. for house use, East and,West Indies, aniVsoutli America, which merit inspection from their excellent ty, first style of workmanship, and moderate prices. the. Articles in this Establishment are warranted, and the astent plan of fifty years standing is still strictly adhered to, o f g but one Ready Money Price, front which no abatement wattle. made. ... ...... ices respectfully 'morn' .. ......._ ry and Gentry, that they still cantina the *wee Establishment for the Benefit of industrious and ingenious Met:hank% (who have large families), by offering their Manufactured Articles in the Cabinet Line of the heat workmanship, and cheaper than by any House,..in London, no other profit 1)44 required than to satisfy the warehouse rent and incidental expenses ; being satisfied with constant employment to enable them to support their families, the number of whom appear by the Book! of the last Quarterly Meeting to he 148. From the great patronage the Committee have received, they are in hopes of increasing that number. The following is a Specimen of the Low Prices asked ; all Goods warranted : . - X. a. d. Five feet Mahogany Bedstead, four-post 4 1 0 0 Test ditto - - - l 6 0 Bordered Mattress to fit - - 1 1 0 Mahogany Drawers with solid ends - S 5. 0 Eight Mahogany Chairs - - 61 0 0 Mahogany Pembroke Table - 2 0 0 Feather Bed free from dust and smell, from £2 12 0 to g 0 Drawing -room Sofa, from £5 5 0 to 7 7 0 Sofa Bedstead • 3 8 0 Mahog an y H orse -H a i r Sofa - - 6 10 0 upwards A quantity of Paper Hangings for Bed, Dining, and Drawing= rooms, at nearly Half-price. The. Trade will find it worth theif attention. Houses Furnished at a few days' notice, and Apartmen tl ' in few hours.---floods packed free of expenee except the matting. COMMITML. * r.: Corder J. Wilson T. Hasler IJ. Unett THURNELL, Agent. J. Carter W. Waghorn ASLER, Secretary COMBINATION. --- „ Put workme n . o f M r. C arolin, a carpenter, having " turned out" for 30s. British per .week wages, instead of the same denomination in Irish currency, which they had before, he sent to Glasgow for Carpenters which he en gaged for .147 g. British, teiliuq them that the trade here was perfectly quiet, bot that he wanted an additional number of hands. When they arriv e d In Dublin, however, they found that instead of Mr. C.'s having eighty men in his employment, as they had been told, there were but two boys in hispremisesand moreover, that. there existed & from proceeding to work, " turn out " . here, which by threats and intimidation pre vented them (the Glasgow me") and Mr. Carolin iefused to give them up their tools, or-to chests in his let them , take any of their clothes .out: of their Possession, thereby preventing them returning to their ow n country; 'for this, and foi a weeks wages, they summoned him before the Lord ' Mayor, mid:Comae were heard on both sides. Mr. Carolin said he had informed them, that if they . went to Work,' he would get a guard of soldiers to eo n . duct them backwards and forwardit one of the Glaagow raen.stood forward and said, that he and his companion* cattle from a quiet and peaceable place, that they did not wi#rto !be paraded through this City, every day; under :the co n duct of a gtark of soldi ers , an d all they wanted wis:tO get b u ck to - their own country, The Lord Mayor thought the decision of the case might, with great Propriety, be left to Mr. Carotin himself !' One of the Workmen stated, that Mr. Carolin said be would lose 5001. sooner than not punish them; on heerinivehick Atneett, Counsel for the workm en , pressed - for the Lord Mayor's decision, and said, the men only wanted - their toms. The Lord MAYO,I said, that case was not before him, he should therefore dismiss the case. liftNtittrr said, they would have an action of trover 4 giiinst Mr Carolin, for recovery of the tools. w r. TDIVNSNND, ' Counsel for Carotin, replied, that h e ogi have an action for broach of covenant. t* Pr o e trr *loin d ' that, they would plead misra e.rseh n i :% s to e n to s. 7 m ,„„,. was than dis Missed, and the parties left the 4 ‘ naule '` - bulilits .Etiening,poit. r 1 el . ABINE 'T.► •KEIt S' SOCIFi-i 7en , i .. ,.. •:, . , Ifl . pliF At) ~,.4 . ,. :triotouitigi t ik.v: .*- t ri o , r-vivir ' REP -fr ''' .;," 4 ' . ItAIIINitT }l.trili!4llo4 t i m , '.Crlrrlir, being t. i:Ai'Vone now existing in London, No. . 4 ~,, 71,i corner, of 4 YENHALL-STREET, opposite . Alilgette rte r y willior Pun ,ve ' . been established upwards o f Si x year .. the rowi' y Ma - . ', ,d no Abatement. a Trustees and Committee respectfully inform the Nobility A. 1 ri. • - No. 10,627. , PRICE 7D. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1826. . MAGAZINE DAY. Our . extracts of this month, from the various periodicals,. are so Unusually lengthy, that we can afford but little space for original comment. Enough to say of each Magazine, generally,.that if it be not very particularly brilliant, it does not in any instance disappoint expectation : this more especially applies to the " Monthly and European Maga zine," which, in point of variety, solidity, and general en tertainment, is by far the best of the month. In the " London," there is a pleasant gossipping article on Head's .tournies across the Pampas :"—En void : BEAD'S JOIJRNIES ACROSS THE PAMPAS. (From the London Magazine.) Captain Head is as extraordinary an equestrian as Captain Cochrane is a pedestrian. The expence of keeping the nether man in decent order, of which there are such grievous complaints in Captain COchranis travels, NV1 1 111(1 have been absolutely ruinous to the galloping Captain Head, had he not at last resorted to that natural clothing of the limbs, which, by a wise provision in case of any abrasure, possesses the faculty of self.rediutegration. " I cannot express," says be, " the delightful feeling of freedom and independence which one enjoys in galloping without clothes on a horse, without a saddle." Captain head, after being landed at Buenos A . yree, took to galloping across the continent of America ; he would start from the Atlantic and gallop to the Pacific, and then setting out from the Pacific, he would re-arrive in a gallop at the Atlantic. " Change horses and back again," was the per petual figure of his country or continental dance. Six thousand miles did the Captain gallop, rapid anti rough, as he says, and so far from the fatigue injuring him, he declares that he rode " till he felt that no exertion could kill him." Though the pace of the Pampas is an impetuous gallop, Captain Head did not ride so fast as to prevent him from taking notes on the back otitis horse rough notes," of course, but still very easy to read. His style is not particularly smooth—we fancy we can perceive the motion of the hors. ; but, nevertheless, the matter is not much injured by the tolutation of the writer. • It is true that the sketches are hasty, but they are striking—the eye knew the points for selection, and has almost invariably Axed upon the objects worth looking at for themselves, and which are :characteristic of the scene to be described. These Rough Notes are a most agree.. able specimen of the lighter kind of travels. In a small volume we cannot have, neither do we want, much scientific or statistical detail--nor much political or historical discussion : we are glad to find lively descriptions of manners, scenery, costume, and in short the general appearances of man and of nature. All this we have and more, and that too done in a hearty and generous spirit which we love, and which all mankind loves. Captain Head was an officer of engineers, when he became enlisted by the directors of one of the Bubble Schemes, as superintendent and manager of a Mining adventure. This scheme seems to have been, what is called in the linspot franca, a regular risco. Miners and mining implements; commissioners, surveyors, and assayers, were all dee patched to America in the most beautiful order; nothing appears to have been omitted hut the values : they were to follow as a mat ter of course. Was not capital forthcoming, and where capital is, can any thing be wanting ? Honest Head seems to have been very much begone on finding that no mines were to be found, where the directors at home bad told hint they were only waiting —iminitiently waiting—to be worked. However, mines it was necessary to have ; and though not, perhaps, the mines mentioned in the prospectus in such glowing colours, yet other . mines that would do just as well, as the glowing colours were always ready to gild any mine--gold'or silver. Accordingly the Chief Com missioner Head set off on a galloping tour in search of sense con ient hole, down to which he might set his Cornish train : 411, the mean tiaw, - the Cornish men were likely to he doing little but getting drunk, and as their wage* were going on All the time, it was necessary to mate haste and dincovera -mine as soon 14 pniable. It is in this " Tour in Search of aMine," ;bat these tough Notes were made, and these were the reasons that induced note-taker to get on as fast as he could. The Pampas are extensive plains, which spread from the Pin de la Plata to the Andes--they are productive chiefly of long grass and thistles ! roads are scarcely tracked through them ; in some parts they are marsh, in some bog, in some loose sand.— Inhabitants are thinly scattered over this vast and almost inter minable extent of level territory; such property as they have is in droves of wild horses and other cattle ; poverty is much more common than property; but with a horse and a lasso, and a pair of spurs, the galloping Gaucho, which is the name of the dweller in the Pampas, never knows, or at least never regards, privation. His food is strips of jerked beef, his drink is water ; his pleasure is galloping, and his pnrsuit either catching. horses and bullocks in hie lasso, or throwing the bolas at the guanaco, or the ostrich.-- During the hours of exertion he is on horse, no fatigue can touch him ; during the homa of repose he lies hint down in the open air, and sleeps all night with no covering but his poncho, or cloak, and with no bedding but his saddle, or the skeleton of a horse's head for a pillotv. Hie life is hard, but se is he ; privations are his daily fare. His luxury is freedom. He lives the life of per fect liberty—restriction of any kind, excepting the natural one* of fktigue and labour, see= unknown in the Pampas. The Gaticho is as happy, and pretty nearly as uncivilised, as when "wild in woods the noble savage run." The Pampas, as has been said, spread from the Atlantic, and are stopped in their course to the Pacific, by the Cordelira of the Andes, which runs down the continent of South America, pretty much after the man ! ner of the chine in pigs, and the spine in man ; excepting, indeed, that it is a good deal on one side, being much nearer to the Pacific than the Atlantic. Neither duet the country on the other side of the Andes in the least correspond with the Pampas, as ribs corre spond to ribs. On the Pacific side extend perpetually to the ocean, innumerable ramification, of the mountains, which conse quently dissect the country of. Chile into alternations of lofty bill and deep valley. Both .sides of the Andes—both the Pampas and Chile, are the scenes of Captain . Head's observations. " The Greenwich Pensioner," from the Monthly and European Magazine, is an excessively clever paper; and what is better,' true, in every particular, to nature. We extract it for the amusement of the reader : ' you as his dearest friend. The heroee of this same story, are our pensioner and a shark : a tremendous shark that used to be the terror of the harbour of St. Thomas's. Upon this shark, and the piece of the mainmast of the Victory, is our pensioner content to restsill his importance during his life, and his fame with pos terity. He will tell you that he, being caterer of the mess, let fall a piece of beef out at the port-hole, which this terrible shark received into 'its jaws, and twisted its body most provokingly at the delicious mouthful. Hereupon our pensioner—it was before, he reminds you, he had lost a limb—Auks leave of the first lieute ant (fur the captain was ashore) to have a bout with the shark : leave being granted, all the crew are qnickly in the shrouds, and upon the hammock-netting, to see Tom—" tackle the shark." Our pensioner now enters into a minute detail of how, having armed himself with a long knife, he jnniped overboard, (lived un der the shark, whom he saw approaching with distended jaws, and inflicted a tremendous wound with the knife in the belly of the fish ; this is repeated thrice, when the shark turns itself upon its back—a boat is let down, and both the conqueror and the con quered are quickly received upon (leek. You are iloubtle , a as tonished at this ; he, however, adds to your surprise by tilling you that the mesa regaled off the piece of beef recovered from the fislf; be snore astounded at this,-although mingle no doubt in your astonishment, and he will straightway promise some day to treat your eyes with a sight of a set of chequer-men, cut from the very dorsal bone of the immolated shark ! To he the hearer of a sailor's tale, is something like undergoing the ancient ordeal of red-hot ploughsliaree ; be innocent of unbelief, and you may, as was held, journey in safety; doubt the smallest point, and you are quickly withered into nought. Whet an odd contrast to his early life is the state of a Greenwich pensioner! It is as though a part of the angry and foaming sea should lie stagnant in a bathing-tub. All his business is to recount his fanner adventures—to plod about, and look with a disdainful eye at tries, and bricks and mortar . ; or, when he would indulge in a serious fit of spleen, to walk down to the river's side, and let his gall feed upon the mishaps of London apprentices, who, fearless of consequences, may have ventured some five miles from home in not a " trim-built wherry." A Greenwich pensioner fresh front sea is a most preposterous crea ture ; he gets up every morning for a week, a month, and still finds himself in the same place; he knows not what to make of it —he feels the strangeness of his situation, and would, had he the patience and the wit, liken himself to a hundred unsettled things. Compare him to a hippopotamus in a gentleman's park, and he would tell you, he had in his day seen a hippopotamus, and then, with a good-natured grunt, acquiesce in the resemblance ; or to a jolly-boat in a flower-garden ;orto a sea-gull in the cage of a canary; or to a porpoise upon a hearth-rug; or to a boatswain's whistle in a nursery; or to a marling--spike in a milliner's work room ; or a tar-barrel in a confectioner's ; with any one or all of these misplaced articles would our unsettled pensioner ormitathire, until time shall have reconciled him to his asylum ; and even then, his fancy, like the shells upon our mantel-piece, will sound of the distant and the dangerous ocean. At Greenwich, how ever, the mutilated old sailor has time enough to indulge in the recollection of his early days, and, with what wisdom he may, to make up his mind to meet in another world those whom his arm may have sent thither long before. Death, at length, gently lays the veteran upon his back—his last words, as the sailor puts his withered hand upon his heart, are " all's well," and sea and earth have passed away. ilia body, which had been forforty years a bulwark to the land, now demands of it but. " two paces of the vilest earth ;" and if aught could spring from the tomb charac teristic of its inmate, from the grave of the pensioner would arise the stout, unbending oak—it would he hie fitting monument ; and •the carolling of the birds in its branches would be his loud, his artless epitaph. The New Monthly litagazjse is, on the whole, a good number; the " Irish Portmit ;,'' in Ti e , l, by, we believe, Mr. would redeem rnar , ;. neeeinierily bad ones, for they ate.adiniralde, and, we have no doubt. faithful in their,, way. We prefer fri ring, tinwevir; for obvious reaPions, between us on that occasion, I should, on meeting him in the course of the same week at dinner at the English atithwatior's, hare requested one of the secretaries who was intimately acquaint ed with him, to introduce me to him in regular form. Hie Lordship here testified his perfect recollection of me, but in the coldest manner, and immediately after turned his back on me. This unceremonious proceeding, forming a striking contrast with pre vious occurrences, had something so strange in it that I was at a loss how to account for it; and felt at the same time much disposed to entertain a less favourable opinion of his Lordship than his apparent frankness had inspired me with at our first meeting. It was not, therefore, without surprise, that, some days after, I saw him in the street corning up to me with a smile of good-nature in his countenance. He accosted me in a familiar manner; and, offering me his hand, said :—" I am an enemy to English etiquette, especially out of England ; and I always make my own ac qua►ntances without waiting for the formality of an introduction. If you have nothing to do, and are disposed for another ramble, I abaft be glad of your company." There wee that irraiiistlble at traction in hit manner, of which those who have had the good luck to be admitted into his intimacy, can alone have felt the power in his momenta of good humour ; and I readily accepted his proposal. We visited again more of the most remarkable curiosities of the capital, a description of which would be here hut a repetition of what a hundred travellers have already detailed with the utmost minuteness and accuracy; hut his Lordship expressed much disappointment at their want of interest. He praised the picturesque beauties of the town itself, and its surrounding scenery; and seemed of opinion, that nothing else was worth looking at. He spoke of the Turks in a manner which might have given rea son to suppose he had made a long residence among them, and closed his observations with these words:—" The Greeks will sooner or later rise against them ; but, if they do not make haste, I hope Buonaparte will come and drive the useless rascals away." About,this time it was notified to all the English who happened to be at Constantinople, that Mr. Adair's public audience of the Sultan, preparatory to his Excellency's return to England, would take place on a certain day, when they were invited to attend at the British pilace*, for the purpose of acoompanying him to the Seraglio. Turkey being then the only Continental state at peace with England, a great number of English travellers had flocked to various parts of Greece, and came up to Constantinople with the hope of being present at the public audience, which, from the announcement of Mr. Adair's approaching departure, was expected soon to take place. Every one prepared to appear hefore the Ottoman throne, and great was the interest exerted to obtain a place in the list of the favoured fourteen, who alone were to be admitted into the audi ence-chamber. The applications were so numerous and pressing, that it was judged necesaeary to show no partiality to any one who Was not, as an attache to the embassy, entitled to the entrees. Two exceptions we, however, wide, in favour of Lord Byron and Captain Bathurst of the Sakette frigate; and no one could have found fault with them. The number was to be filled up on the spot, as circumstances and chance directed. - In the circular note of invitation sent round, it was requested that those gentlemen who chose to attend should be at the palace exactly at four o'clock in the morning of the appointed day. This was rather an early time for a formal visit to an Emperor ; but the Turks have not yet been taught the advantages which arias from reversing the order of those natural rules by which many of their customs are governed ; hence, they commence business with the rising sun, dine and sup at early hours, and retire to rest soon after sunset, taking occasionally a nap in the middle of a aummerle day, when the extreme heat of the season inclines the body to re pose and the mind to indolence. We were, then in the early part of June ; and as the dietaries, from the tieraglio, and the formaities we should be required to go through on our way thither, were considered likely to take wp much time, it lied been deemed necessary that we eliould be ready to start et daybreak. So grest was , the anxiety arnoug the . English not to miss being present at this celebrated ce re mo n y, that man y did not go to bed on the preceding night, for fear of over-sleeping themselves. The important day dawned at last, and at half-past, three the great gates 'of the palace were thrown open. Theextensive grounds which surround the buildings were soon filled with a crowd of ser vanta, grooms, and a number of horses saddled in the English and Turkish fashion. Along the front avenue, three, corn pa nit* , of a regiment nf-ianissaries, who were to act as are extra-guard of be gone, took their station, as well as twenty-four marines of the Sakette. An officer of rank, acting as under-master of the cere monies at the Seraglio, arrived on horseback, for the purpose of conducting the Ambassador. Ile was followed by ten subaltern officers alio mounted, and by four Arab grooms, who led as many houses tieblr Caparisoned, sent to his Excellency as a present from the gultan. The suburb of Pere, which foreigners of all nations have chosen for their town residence, is situated on an eminence, and is the continuation of several street*, each about a mile and a half in length, leading to various parts of the quays that border the har bour of Constantinople. The British palace is at the furthest extremity of it ; and neither the distance to the place where we were to erase the harbour, nor the dignity of the Ambassador, could admit of his going to it ; on such an occasion on foot. Car riages have not yet come into use in this Eastern capital, at least for men; and, moreover, as it is customary among the Turks to perform their visits of ceremony on horeeback, this was the mode chosen by his Excellency. A regular procession was to be formed on leaving the palace; the order of it had been settled by the Am baesador, and made known to the persons concerned by a written list, which was circulated among them on their assembling at the palace. The Secretary of Legation having the character of Mi nister Plenipotentiary, in which capacity he was to succeed Mr. Adair, had been designated in the list, as the person who should ride next to the Ambassador in the procession, and after him, Lord Byron and the Consul-General. Whilst most of us were lounging about the numerous suits of lofty apartments, waiting for the word of departure, I observed Lord Byron take up the list of procession in a careless manner,snd almost immediately after throw it on the table, and walk hastily to the next room. Here Mr. Adair was standing ; and Lord Byron, whom I had followed, scent up to him and spoke in a manner which evidently implied a reference to the paper he had just seem. As neither his Lordship nor his Excellency showed any wish that their conversation should remain unheard I approached them near enough to become soon convinced that soy suspicions relative to the subject of it had been correct. Lord Byron expressed sur prise that, as a Peer of the realm, 114 name should pot have bees put in the list next to the Ambassador's. Mr. Adair assured hint, that, by the arrangements made, nothing like disrespect to his Lordship was intended to be conveyed ; but be begged leave to inform him, that the place next to himself on this occasion be longed to Mr. Stratford Canning, the Secretary of Embassy, and could be assigned to no one else. Lord Byron replied with some warmth, that he did not coincide with his (Mr. A.'s) view of the matter, and t ea li a s tra rather mp g him. e a r t c h o anc s o n n y f i o n r m t o it, hr To this l‘ wouldir Adair altogether relinquish the pleasure rejoined, in a tone of cold civility, a thi g i ood t his mor L u o in rd g s , h a ip m . t w h ae as , t . i t l : coarse, at liberty to act lit he , thought proper; whereupon speedily known to. all the English ,the right of a' t ' i l no e tr e r r oati t te o icer p eded re i e ted a a - t ehLordf to,This ta:l the palac e . y p r in o i n o n es a lter ca t io n , i beings h tsl , l v i it s ve hiw Excelle n c y a s a t) then at the palace, gav e rift to a goad deal' of debate among dines on an official o rs c h c t s oo s t i ll on i:lo , h h apv i ser w tei hl i e si h renint.dr h p e oor i nen w eein as thdeTeto iL o o n t kule a laict f rt un i :t p i fe r Fureiiymo . ef e Co Nnot n i''t tioi,nugbwt;hheleino;i:iieußompanied with the investment of actual au thority there. When the Duke of Wellington, I.ordClasuarty, and Lord Castlereagh as British Minister of Foreign Affai rs, w ent tthoethAeuCstoriiiagnressc oofurNtlenbnayial,. the e th u e r y zt n w o e is r h e formally rj" T knth r: CceoruertmOnwyhoof 1n n he audience I must reserv e for My nu t pit per. • The !Total of thepritish Ecubalkay at Constantinople i 4 a° called, Bl ac k w ood's Magazine is more than usually serious thin month, with less than its accustomed variety' of subject, The article on Greece, howeVer, is strong and eloquent, vehement kiguiiht the Turk (who, with the 'faults, has at imist the splendid virtues of the barbarian—honour, libe al'iYhospitality, cottrage)—and scarcely . doing justices r frot t nits-deSperete partiality, to,the, cause it professes to THE GREENWICH PENSIONER, Why, thie.Greenwich pensioner is in himself a record of the last forty mire' war. He is a breathing volume of naval history : not an event but is somewhere indented in him with steel or lead: he has been the stick in which the English Mars has notched his cricket-matehes, when twenty-four pounders were balls, and mainmasts wickets. See, in his blinded eye is Howe's victory on the glorious First of June ; that stump of what was once an atm, is Nile; anti in his wooden leg, read Trafalgar. As to his scars, a gallant action, or a desperate cutting-nut, is noted in every one °I . them. And what was the old fellow's only wish, as with a . eliettared knee, he lay in the cockpit under the surgeon's hand.— What was his earnest supplication to the wet - eyed messmate who NO him down the hatchway? Simply, that he would nave (him one Of the splinters of the Mainmast of the Victory, to make of . it it a . l . eg for Sundays ! IIi;, wish was granted ; and at Greenwich, . . . time, and ' home-was to "r h a e Y‘ on the seventh 'day, and also on the 21st of Octobet, is he la4ou r ile" . l ' P r "Plind upon the inestimable iplinter, which from glossiness of ma nTaTly. Wh at - - , has . hi at a face he has! What a certain consciousness of . superiority 0 h' hi s li p, and . frti top to t oe i ntc ' bow a Sudden , witch t 0 taken the dark is element at times puffs put tp, gives the te ;„, l oil n l O his head ! But ask him in what quarter sete in, e a self..i nqu i r aud i without ever (raising his head or hand to with bitten* eye he will. glance at you tien he WAS Areal' answers you at once, as though it was a tines hill first h t n i i i ," * , Y l in . e.ltreil for,! And so, indeed, he is ; it being wit,. to gain' his entire 14ter ignorance, oath hi. ~ (4 rising, to . consult the weather. The only denee, is at once frankly to avow your 4 ores of Guinea, where ---by ti m . ec at you with an ey e , in Te 1 r . iority ; and then, after he has leer- involich there is a meeting of contempt, good-humour, and self -1 ll straightway launch i nt , rta 4 h ve, he is wholly your own ; and South Seas, mast alcing the ii love with a negro', w h oi..in 7 we i r , he will tell you he once fell a litho, he will launch oat &bout Admiral jilted him for the cook,-- v Me with him round Cap e H orn Duncan—take you a ~. et-ehots that were ungallinstl- fi rms " 4 sung a song to the ship's '' where 4 mermaid apPeard, h in through that, an the int 4 ' crow; a nd wh 0, incited , blew aside suffer yourself to "1 her melody. But our pensioner has ) red at her in requital r eital, and; if I I you were not a land;rnan, he he one particular story ; hear would instant] ' g ree t wholly astounded at its y RECOLLECTIONS OF TURKEY. The nature of my avocation. in the capital of the Ottoman em pire brought use so often into personal intercourse with the people of the country, that I soon became as great a Terinekee as any of them. It became therefore necessary that I should-have. a supply of good-looking pipes, as well fur the use of my visitors as for own enjoyment, and I was directed to one of the principal CAibooh manufactories in the Turkish part of the town. Here the dealer no ewer learnt the intent of my intended purchase, than he sprang up from the mat on which he was squatted in the middle of the front-shop, welcomed me ' with the friendly word Bonyooroun, and invited me to sit down on an mire-sopha t which ranged a great portion of a hack-room. Here' he spread before me several dozen of amber mouth-pieces of different prices, .and placed himself opposite to me et the edge of the sopha iu a kneeling posture (a favourite position with the natives of Turkey), expatiating with much earnestness on the superior quality of hie wares. Having selected and put aside the pieces which suited my taste, I inquired about the price of the whole, and was asked, as usual, nearly three times the amount that was in tended to be taken. Long and tedious would have appeared to me:the discussion we now entered into, had not the gravity of man ner and the imposing gesture of the Oribookgee been a Douro* of no small amusement. A person unacquainted with the manners of the country, might have supposed that the most important article of a treaty of peace between two empires was in negotia tion between us. We were interrupted in the midst of our debate by the entrance of a stranger, whom on the first glance I guessed to be an Englishman but lately arrived at Constantinople. H. wore -a scarlet coat, richly em b ro id ere d w i t h g old, in the style of anEnglish aide-de-c am p' s d rem- ni fo rm, AV itil two heavy epaulettes. His'countenance announced him to be *hoot the age of two-and twenty.: His features were remarkably delicate, and would have given him a feminine appearance but for the manly expression of hie fine blue eyes. On entering the inner shop, he took off his feathered cocked-hat, and showed a head of curly auburn hair, which improved in no small degree the uncommon beauty of his face. The impression which his whole appearance mule on my mini was inch, that it has ever since remained deeply engraven on it ; and although fifteen years have since gone by, th e l ap „ o f time has not in the slightest degree impaired the freshnees of the recollection. 4 i was attended by a Janisaary attached to the English enabasay,l and by a person who professionally acted as a sort of Cicerone. to strangers. These cavort:stances, together with a very. visible lameness in one of hid legs, ennvinced me at once he was Lord Byron. I had already heard otitis Lordship, and of his late arrival i n t h e s a k e tte frigate, which had come up from the Smyrna station; to fetch away Mr. Adair, our ambassador to thl, Porte. Lord Byron had been previously tra ve lli ng i n Epirus and Asir Minor, with his friend Mr. Ilobhouee, and h a d b ecome a great amateur of smoking; he was conducted to this s h o p f or t h e purpose of purchasing a few pipes. The indiff erent I ta li an, i n which language he spoke to his Cicevone, anti the latter's still more imperfect Turkish, made it. difficult for the shopkeeper to under stand their wishes ; and, as this seemed to vex the stranger, I addressed him in English, offering to interpret for him. When his, Lordship th us di scovere d me to be an Englishman, he shook tae: 4)) , the hand, and alistited me, with some warmth in his' manner, that he always felt great pleasure when he met with a countryman abroad. ilia purchase and my bargain being corn pitted, we w a lk e d out t oge th e r and rambl e d a b out the streets, in pl ea sure of di rect i ng several of ' w hi c h I h a d t h e his attention to coins of the most remarkable curiosities in Constantinople, The peculiar circumstance, under which our acquaintance took place, established between .us in one day a certain degree of intimacy, which two or three years frequenting each other's company in England would most likely not have licoovnidisited. I frequently adOresSed him by his name, but be did not think of i nv i r i uskaw I name to learn it, nor of asking mine. His Lordship had not yet laid the foundation or that literary renown which he afterwards amptired ; on the contrary, at that time he WAS only known as the author of his " Hours of Idleness ;" and the severity with which the Edinburgh Reviewers had criticised that production was still fresh in thery English reader's recollection. I could not therefore b e supposed to elek his acquaintance from any of those motives of va nity which hare act uate d so ma ny oth ers since; but it was natural that after our accidental rearontre, and all that pasted A n amateur of the pipe. t A low sofa raised only two or three inches from the floor I n Turkey the ambiutsadurs and "' tw ills of foreign powera are allowed a guard of honour cotuposed of Janisuries, one of whom usually precedes the foreign dignitary through the streets of the place in which he resides. , . .;if -- "; , 1, , , - ' ‹ ,, , i. ' t .- 2 ! t •--. 7) i 1 , ~1, b•r4t, t' 2' -- 1 r f , l''''' •• qi; : .4. , .- ' , j • '—'• - . , '''''+ -•-••• ' 4-e., -- ' • ' • 4 , ~ c .... ,- "A ,''' P-',/ ;IC 4. ...) .. ~.... . ;.....„.. o , ...,,,, , .. pi , , _ i - -.,.. 1 ‘ 4.' ,41 '; i 4 4- 4 .4 i = • • ;- ..u_l. /m , 'f. , 1 i f ~ , • _, r,p I ~,, ''''' • ..11- 1 K i • . V ' ‘4l4 l rf 10 -/ h l fP ' ••• ~.0 "# h i le ' T r. '.. • C 1 i 4 if ''' -'. N 1( ). 1 • 54 4 0 ingii '''t 141 t• ' • ' Ifie,,. ph,i,' - . Advocate. " Mansie Wauch's Autobiography" is an ar ticle in Mr.. flitl.t's very best style, who, after an unusual silence, seems to bengal!' entering the field as a periodical Essayist. The following extract from his last article is eminently beautiful:— Oh wad that my time ware ower but, W►' this wintry sleet and snaw, That I might see our house again, I' the bonny birken shaw For this is no my sin life, And I peak and pins away, Wi the thochte o' hams, and the young liow'rs, I' the glad green month o' May. I used to wauk in the morning Wi' the loud sang o' the lark, And the whistling o' the ploughmen lads, As they gaed to their wank I used to wear in the young limbs Free .the tod and the mating stream ; But the warld is changed, and a' thing now To me seems like a dream. There are busy crowds around me On ilka long dull street ; Yet, though sae many surround me, I kenna ane I meet, And I think on kind, kent faces, Aud a blithe and cherry days, When I wandcr'd out wi' our sin folk, Outower the simmer braes, Wae's me, for my heart is breaking ; I think on my sister's ama', And on my brithers greeting, When I came front home awl; And oh! how my wither aublait, As she shook me by the hand ; When I left the door o' our amid house, To come to the stranger land ! There's nae place like our ain hams ; Oh, I wish that I was there ! There's nae place like our ain hams To be met lei' ony where ! And, oh ! that I were back again To our farm and fields 1 , 10 green ; And heard the tongues o' my ain folk, And was what I lane been ! The Essay on the " Military Policy and Institutions of Great Britain" is as heavy—to use the words of Rabelais, in his Voyage to the Holy Route—" as a gentleman with the night-mare ;" it contains, however, some important facts, which we recommend to the Reader's attention. , The " Cabinet of Portraits," by Leigh Hunt, is also another good feature in the New Monthly. his spirited, lively, and fanciful. As a specimen of the poetical talent of this Magazine, we give the following beautiful " Records of Woman" : RECORDS OF WOMAN.—JOAN or tti AHED'S. That was a joyous day in Rheims of old, When peal on peal of mighty music roll'd Forth from her throng'il Cathedral ; while around A multitude, whose billows made no sound, Clusin'd to a hush of wonder, though elate With victory, liste.i'd to their temple's gate. —And what was done within ?—Within, the light, Through the rich gloom of storied window. flowing, Tinged with soft awfulness a stately sight, The chivalry of France, their proud heads bowing In martial vassalage ! While 'midst that ring, And shadow'd by ancestral tombs, a king Received his birthright's crown. For this, the by-mn Swell'd out like rushing waters, and the day With the sweet censer's misty breath grew dim, As through long aisles, it floated o'er th' array Of arms and sweeping states. But who, alone And unapproach'd, beside the alter-atone, With the white banner, forth 1 eke sunshine streaming. And the gold helm, through clouds of fragrance glsinsing, Silent and radiant stood ? l. -The./., - And the fair fats rented that.upward giced Intensely worshipping : a still clear face, Youthful, hut brightly solemn! Woman's cheek And brow were there in deep devotion meek, Yet glorified wish Inspiration's trace On their pure paleness" ; while, enthroned above, The pictured Virgin, with her smile of lore, Sceru'd bending o'er her votaress. That slight Jima Was that the leader through the battle storm ? Had the soft light in that adoring eye Guided the warrior where the minds flash'il high ? ---'Twas so, even so !--and thou, the shepherd's child, Joanne, the lowly dreamer of the wild ! Never before, and never since that hour, Hath liftman, mantled with victorious power. Stood forth as thou beside the shrine didst stand, Holy, amidst the knighthood of the land, And beautiful with joy and with renown, Lift thy white banner o'er the olden crows, Ransotu'd for France by thee! _ - The rites are done Now let the dome with trumpet-notes be shaken, And bid the echoes of the tombs awaken ; And crone thou forth, that Heaven's rejoicing sun D kl a a l y ig g h i t v e e r t o h f e v o i re cto el ry 7Le A fror rin t i h n i l le a o n w t own bin. skin, A proud rich stream of warlike melodies, Gush'd through the portals of the antique fano, And forth abs came. Then rose a nation's sound..-. Oh! Ivhat a power to bid the quick heart bound, The wind bears onwards with the stormy *beer Man gives to Glory on her high career! Is there indeed such power ?—far deeper dwells In ens kind household voice, to reach tht cello Whence happiness flows forth !—the shouts that fill'4l The hollow heaven tempestuously were still'd One moment ; and in that brief pause, the tone, As of a breeze that o'er her borne hart blown, Sank on the bright maid's heart.—" Joanne!"-.—Who spoke Like those whose childhood with her childhood yaw Under one roof?—" Joanne !" That murmur broke With founds of weeping firth'!— he tnrn'ti,--she knew Beside her, mark'd from all the thousands there, In the calm beauty of his silver hair, The stately shepherd; and the youth, whose joy Prank his dark eye fluted proudly; and the boy, The youngest horn, that ever laird her best —" Father; and ye, my brothers !" o —On the breast Of that grey sire she sank..and swiftly b ac k, Ev'n an instant, to their native trick Her free thoughts Ilowtd.—She saw the pomp no more— ma plum% the banners !—to her cabin door, And to the Fairy's fountain in the glutei!. Where her young sisters by her side had plapl, And to her hamlet's chapel, where it rose Hallowing the forest unto deep repose, Her *pith tuned. The very wood-note, sung In early sprinte-titno Icy the bird which dwelt Where o'er her father's roof the beech-leaves hung , Was in her heart, a mus i c heard and felt, Winning her beck to Nature. She unbound The helm of many battles from her bead, And, with her bright loc!ks bow'd to sweep As.lll"ndi Lifting her voice up, *rept for joy, and mid*-- " Bless me, try Father, bless me!. and with Ow To the still cabin and the beechen tree, Let me return!" Oh ! never did thitureys Through thi green haunts of happy toflu u T Wander again, Joanne ! Too south of fat" lied abed its nulisnee on thy passant-name; And bonght done by gifts beruoi *ll price, The trusting* . beart's repass, ;h. ParadimP Of home with ell its lore 4. Bosh Fiat "ow The crowd of glory unto woman's brow, • " Jeanne d'Arc .vast en la jai. de voir plialons quelptie stole .de rots *slither. tine joie plus ineffable encore l'attendatt a ~,,a rDh1 . ::Y .: 1 41, :4 7 ,4 : 1""1u0 1i t "4 : : : (1141 A t - s :r * e s e; :e tt i n clu i ln ; eP re l 7 h l r o Cjh i s i g e r l ue ' s ll. 7l : 4l :e ttA ri 7 t re.ru ari n t u n t ; P az ti , ll rr44.* :, y :71: rs vita poor no instant, an milieu de sa daps lesllia t h is N e e rertueux, stupid cette yertneuse tills se pint renvopr ter b o i l were (Pesti tne rion retie Ftoit ento rie.".4-.Mns Yt et fie de (kilo. tree and fountain near Dotnretni, the nstive village of - Somme d'Are, were believed to be haunted by kiri t i, and vete mum frequented by the young girl, af the neig)thouring )teinlets, who often suspended wreaths of 'flowers froM the branikel of the tree, which war a beach of remarkable size and beauty. . • The Inspector eloses our brief and general notice it is nothing very marvellous in point of intellect; but good